Defend Workers' Rights to Organise
Poster
1977 (made)
1977 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers. Jayaben Desai is pictured on the right. She led a walkout on 23rd August 1976 of striking workers at the Grunwick film processing plant in Chapter Road, Willesden. Lettered with the name and address of the trade and labour hall in Willesden, information on the 24 hour picket, images of local workers with placards supporting the strike, and four images of 'the enemy behind' (Gorst, Sir Robert Thompson, Brian Crozier and Robert Moss of the employers association N.A.F.F). These four men are labelled on the poster as 'the champions of sweat-shop bosses, presently advising and representing Grunwicks'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Defend Workers' Rights to Organise (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprinted poster |
| Brief description | Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers' Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers, made by the Poster Film Collective, in collaboration with the Grunwick Strike Committee, 1977. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers. Jayaben Desai is pictured on the right. She led a walkout on 23rd August 1976 of striking workers at the Grunwick film processing plant in Chapter Road, Willesden. Lettered with the name and address of the trade and labour hall in Willesden, information on the 24 hour picket, images of local workers with placards supporting the strike, and four images of 'the enemy behind' (Gorst, Sir Robert Thompson, Brian Crozier and Robert Moss of the employers association N.A.F.F). These four men are labelled on the poster as 'the champions of sweat-shop bosses, presently advising and representing Grunwicks'. |
| Credit line | Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop |
| Object history | Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is easy...?' |
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| Association | |
| Bibliographic reference | From the exhibition by the Greenwich Mural Workshop 'Printing is Easy...?', 1986 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.568-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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